Re:Zoom iOS app sends data to Facebook even if you don’t hav...
by koyote on Thursday March 26, 2020 @09:37PM
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So I do not have facebook installed on my phone but I do have instagram and whatsapp.
A large amount of phone apps seem to appear in that list. I guess Whatsapp/Instagram creates a fingerprint of my device and then uses that for tracking?
Re:Zoom iOS app sends data to Facebook even if you don’t hav...
by theferalrobot on Friday March 27, 2020 @12:12AM
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I believe that is in fact the case. I removed all Facebook owned apps from my phone a few weeks ago and I stopped seeing reports show up there. Experimentally, it seems like an uninstall disassociates the ID from your facebook account.
That doesn’t mean facebook stopped getting those reports, only that they are no longer associating them with my account.
Re:Zoom iOS app sends data to Facebook even if you don’t hav...
by daemonspudguy on Thursday March 26, 2020 @09:40PM
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They are both owned by Facebook, so yes
Re:Zoom iOS app sends data to Facebook even if you don’t hav...
by jmiserez on Thursday March 26, 2020 @09:53PM
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You can disable it under: More Options -> Manage Future Activity:
https://www.facebook.com/off_facebook_activity/future_activi...
https://www.facebook.com/off_facebook_activity/activity_list
(click the area with the various app & website icons to expand into a more detailed view)
I was pretty surprised the first time I came across that list, there are a lot of apps on there that I never did a Facebook login with. For example right now I see that a map app I downloaded when I was travelling last year but only opened once or twice has sent 395 "interactions", the latest of which was 3 days ago. Actually, I should probably delete that now haha. Also, I'm using Firefox with the Facebook container, Privacy Badger, and uBlock Origin, and there are still many websites listed.